Global Health EDCTP3
@globalhealthedctp3.bsky.social
We fund clinical research, train scientists, and strengthen health systems in sub-Saharan Africa, developing local solutions and boosting global health security.
Funded by the European Union and 40+ countries.
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Funded by the European Union and 40+ countries.
🔗 europa.eu/!xbygghgk
If you have ever compared two costing studies and wondered why the numbers don’t match… You are not alone.
📃A new open-access paper explains how costs are defined & measured in global health and why consistency matters for better decisions.
👉Read more: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
📃A new open-access paper explains how costs are defined & measured in global health and why consistency matters for better decisions.
👉Read more: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
November 28, 2025 at 4:24 PM
If you have ever compared two costing studies and wondered why the numbers don’t match… You are not alone.
📃A new open-access paper explains how costs are defined & measured in global health and why consistency matters for better decisions.
👉Read more: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
📃A new open-access paper explains how costs are defined & measured in global health and why consistency matters for better decisions.
👉Read more: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Together with our sister Joint Undertakings, we are powering Europe’s #competitiveness and #growth thanks to our unique partnership model.
🎂 This week, we celebrate the establishment of the current generation of partnerships four years ago.
🎂 This week, we celebrate the establishment of the current generation of partnerships four years ago.
November 28, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Together with our sister Joint Undertakings, we are powering Europe’s #competitiveness and #growth thanks to our unique partnership model.
🎂 This week, we celebrate the establishment of the current generation of partnerships four years ago.
🎂 This week, we celebrate the establishment of the current generation of partnerships four years ago.
We have some exciting news on the horizon, and our newsletter subscribers will hear it first.
Coming soon:
💸 2026 funding calls
🎟️ #InfoDay 2026 launch
🌍 Our upgraded networking platform
Be on the list. Be in the loop. Be ahead. 😉
👉 Subscribe now: www.global-health-edctp3.europa.eu/news-and-eve...
Coming soon:
💸 2026 funding calls
🎟️ #InfoDay 2026 launch
🌍 Our upgraded networking platform
Be on the list. Be in the loop. Be ahead. 😉
👉 Subscribe now: www.global-health-edctp3.europa.eu/news-and-eve...
November 26, 2025 at 11:27 AM
We have some exciting news on the horizon, and our newsletter subscribers will hear it first.
Coming soon:
💸 2026 funding calls
🎟️ #InfoDay 2026 launch
🌍 Our upgraded networking platform
Be on the list. Be in the loop. Be ahead. 😉
👉 Subscribe now: www.global-health-edctp3.europa.eu/news-and-eve...
Coming soon:
💸 2026 funding calls
🎟️ #InfoDay 2026 launch
🌍 Our upgraded networking platform
Be on the list. Be in the loop. Be ahead. 😉
👉 Subscribe now: www.global-health-edctp3.europa.eu/news-and-eve...
For more than two decades, EDCTP has shown what long-term, equitable Africa–Europe collaboration can achieve 🌍
We are proud to highlight three breakthroughs made possible through this partnership: Coartem Baby, Ivermectin and Fexinidazole.
🔗 More: link.europa.eu/JKCjn7
We are proud to highlight three breakthroughs made possible through this partnership: Coartem Baby, Ivermectin and Fexinidazole.
🔗 More: link.europa.eu/JKCjn7
November 25, 2025 at 3:11 PM
For more than two decades, EDCTP has shown what long-term, equitable Africa–Europe collaboration can achieve 🌍
We are proud to highlight three breakthroughs made possible through this partnership: Coartem Baby, Ivermectin and Fexinidazole.
🔗 More: link.europa.eu/JKCjn7
We are proud to highlight three breakthroughs made possible through this partnership: Coartem Baby, Ivermectin and Fexinidazole.
🔗 More: link.europa.eu/JKCjn7
How do we fight antimicrobial resistance (AMR)?
📊 By collecting high-quality data, our #PROTECTnetwork project is laying the groundwork for future vaccines, to reduce infections and limit the need for antibiotics, a key step in slowing #AMR.
👉More: www.protect-network.org/blog/surveil...
📊 By collecting high-quality data, our #PROTECTnetwork project is laying the groundwork for future vaccines, to reduce infections and limit the need for antibiotics, a key step in slowing #AMR.
👉More: www.protect-network.org/blog/surveil...
November 24, 2025 at 4:23 PM
How do we fight antimicrobial resistance (AMR)?
📊 By collecting high-quality data, our #PROTECTnetwork project is laying the groundwork for future vaccines, to reduce infections and limit the need for antibiotics, a key step in slowing #AMR.
👉More: www.protect-network.org/blog/surveil...
📊 By collecting high-quality data, our #PROTECTnetwork project is laying the groundwork for future vaccines, to reduce infections and limit the need for antibiotics, a key step in slowing #AMR.
👉More: www.protect-network.org/blog/surveil...
🦠Antimicrobial resistance affects everyone.
We are sharing @who.int infographics this week on using antibiotics wisely.
If they are helpful, please like & repost so more people see them.
👉Let’s spread awareness, not resistance.
#GlobalHealthEDCTP3Knowledge #WAAW
We are sharing @who.int infographics this week on using antibiotics wisely.
If they are helpful, please like & repost so more people see them.
👉Let’s spread awareness, not resistance.
#GlobalHealthEDCTP3Knowledge #WAAW
November 24, 2025 at 3:07 PM
🦠Antimicrobial resistance affects everyone.
We are sharing @who.int infographics this week on using antibiotics wisely.
If they are helpful, please like & repost so more people see them.
👉Let’s spread awareness, not resistance.
#GlobalHealthEDCTP3Knowledge #WAAW
We are sharing @who.int infographics this week on using antibiotics wisely.
If they are helpful, please like & repost so more people see them.
👉Let’s spread awareness, not resistance.
#GlobalHealthEDCTP3Knowledge #WAAW
Interested in #tuberculosis research?
📆Join on 9 December the #webinar unveiling a new TB drug with fewer side effects and strong efficacy against multi-drug resistant TB.
The result of collaboration across 3 IHI and EDCTP-funded projects.
👉Register: www.ihi.europa.eu/news-events/...
📆Join on 9 December the #webinar unveiling a new TB drug with fewer side effects and strong efficacy against multi-drug resistant TB.
The result of collaboration across 3 IHI and EDCTP-funded projects.
👉Register: www.ihi.europa.eu/news-events/...
November 24, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Interested in #tuberculosis research?
📆Join on 9 December the #webinar unveiling a new TB drug with fewer side effects and strong efficacy against multi-drug resistant TB.
The result of collaboration across 3 IHI and EDCTP-funded projects.
👉Register: www.ihi.europa.eu/news-events/...
📆Join on 9 December the #webinar unveiling a new TB drug with fewer side effects and strong efficacy against multi-drug resistant TB.
The result of collaboration across 3 IHI and EDCTP-funded projects.
👉Register: www.ihi.europa.eu/news-events/...
Can Europe lead the way in funding #globalhealth? 🌍
At the #POLITICOHealthSummit, Dr Michael Makanga stressed that the goal is not to replace the US, but to lead and unite partners.
He stated that this crisis presents 'a golden opportunity for the European Union.'
At the #POLITICOHealthSummit, Dr Michael Makanga stressed that the goal is not to replace the US, but to lead and unite partners.
He stated that this crisis presents 'a golden opportunity for the European Union.'
November 21, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Can Europe lead the way in funding #globalhealth? 🌍
At the #POLITICOHealthSummit, Dr Michael Makanga stressed that the goal is not to replace the US, but to lead and unite partners.
He stated that this crisis presents 'a golden opportunity for the European Union.'
At the #POLITICOHealthSummit, Dr Michael Makanga stressed that the goal is not to replace the US, but to lead and unite partners.
He stated that this crisis presents 'a golden opportunity for the European Union.'
Drug-resistant malaria is rising in East and Southern Africa🦠
At #ASTMH2025, the Global Health EDCTP3–funded MARC SE-Africa project shared breakthrough data and models to drive faster, smarter malaria policy.
🔗 Read more: www.marcse-africa.org/news/blog/ad...
At #ASTMH2025, the Global Health EDCTP3–funded MARC SE-Africa project shared breakthrough data and models to drive faster, smarter malaria policy.
🔗 Read more: www.marcse-africa.org/news/blog/ad...
November 21, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Drug-resistant malaria is rising in East and Southern Africa🦠
At #ASTMH2025, the Global Health EDCTP3–funded MARC SE-Africa project shared breakthrough data and models to drive faster, smarter malaria policy.
🔗 Read more: www.marcse-africa.org/news/blog/ad...
At #ASTMH2025, the Global Health EDCTP3–funded MARC SE-Africa project shared breakthrough data and models to drive faster, smarter malaria policy.
🔗 Read more: www.marcse-africa.org/news/blog/ad...
🚨PhD Opportunity!
The Centre for Research in Infectious Diseases (CRID) is recruiting a fully funded PhD in the Social Science of Vector-Borne Diseases within IMPACTING, a Global Health EDCTP3 project.
📍 Yaoundé, Cameroon
🗓️ Deadline: 30 Nov 2025
🔗 Apply: crid-cam.com/call-for-app...
The Centre for Research in Infectious Diseases (CRID) is recruiting a fully funded PhD in the Social Science of Vector-Borne Diseases within IMPACTING, a Global Health EDCTP3 project.
📍 Yaoundé, Cameroon
🗓️ Deadline: 30 Nov 2025
🔗 Apply: crid-cam.com/call-for-app...
November 20, 2025 at 2:15 PM
🚨PhD Opportunity!
The Centre for Research in Infectious Diseases (CRID) is recruiting a fully funded PhD in the Social Science of Vector-Borne Diseases within IMPACTING, a Global Health EDCTP3 project.
📍 Yaoundé, Cameroon
🗓️ Deadline: 30 Nov 2025
🔗 Apply: crid-cam.com/call-for-app...
The Centre for Research in Infectious Diseases (CRID) is recruiting a fully funded PhD in the Social Science of Vector-Borne Diseases within IMPACTING, a Global Health EDCTP3 project.
📍 Yaoundé, Cameroon
🗓️ Deadline: 30 Nov 2025
🔗 Apply: crid-cam.com/call-for-app...
When medicines stop working, lives are at risk. #AMR demands action.
For World AMR Week, we echo this year’s call: Act Now: Protect Our Present, Secure Our Future.
Our portfolio:
🔹 32 projects
🔹 €165.4M
🔹 184 institutions
🔹 47 countries
#WAAW
🔗 global-health-edctp3.europa.eu/fighting-ant...
For World AMR Week, we echo this year’s call: Act Now: Protect Our Present, Secure Our Future.
Our portfolio:
🔹 32 projects
🔹 €165.4M
🔹 184 institutions
🔹 47 countries
#WAAW
🔗 global-health-edctp3.europa.eu/fighting-ant...
November 19, 2025 at 10:37 AM
When medicines stop working, lives are at risk. #AMR demands action.
For World AMR Week, we echo this year’s call: Act Now: Protect Our Present, Secure Our Future.
Our portfolio:
🔹 32 projects
🔹 €165.4M
🔹 184 institutions
🔹 47 countries
#WAAW
🔗 global-health-edctp3.europa.eu/fighting-ant...
For World AMR Week, we echo this year’s call: Act Now: Protect Our Present, Secure Our Future.
Our portfolio:
🔹 32 projects
🔹 €165.4M
🔹 184 institutions
🔹 47 countries
#WAAW
🔗 global-health-edctp3.europa.eu/fighting-ant...
#Dengue is rising fast in #Africa, especially #WestAfrica, with >90,000 confirmed cases and 900 deaths in the last decade.
New study by our #GenPathAfrica project shows urgent need for better surveillance & local response.
📖 Read: doi.org/10.1016/j.tm...
New study by our #GenPathAfrica project shows urgent need for better surveillance & local response.
📖 Read: doi.org/10.1016/j.tm...
November 10, 2025 at 8:09 AM
#Dengue is rising fast in #Africa, especially #WestAfrica, with >90,000 confirmed cases and 900 deaths in the last decade.
New study by our #GenPathAfrica project shows urgent need for better surveillance & local response.
📖 Read: doi.org/10.1016/j.tm...
New study by our #GenPathAfrica project shows urgent need for better surveillance & local response.
📖 Read: doi.org/10.1016/j.tm...
Get SEPTRE, a free tool to design & manage high-quality clinical trial protocols.
Eligible if you are:
✔️ @tghn-news.bsky.social member
✔️ In a low or lower-middle-income country
✔️ Non-profit/public organisation
✔️ Will share outputs
By #EDCTP.
Apply 👉 edctpknowledgehub.tghn.org/protocol-dev...
Eligible if you are:
✔️ @tghn-news.bsky.social member
✔️ In a low or lower-middle-income country
✔️ Non-profit/public organisation
✔️ Will share outputs
By #EDCTP.
Apply 👉 edctpknowledgehub.tghn.org/protocol-dev...
November 7, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Get SEPTRE, a free tool to design & manage high-quality clinical trial protocols.
Eligible if you are:
✔️ @tghn-news.bsky.social member
✔️ In a low or lower-middle-income country
✔️ Non-profit/public organisation
✔️ Will share outputs
By #EDCTP.
Apply 👉 edctpknowledgehub.tghn.org/protocol-dev...
Eligible if you are:
✔️ @tghn-news.bsky.social member
✔️ In a low or lower-middle-income country
✔️ Non-profit/public organisation
✔️ Will share outputs
By #EDCTP.
Apply 👉 edctpknowledgehub.tghn.org/protocol-dev...
#BIOVentures 15-session GIA Biomedical Research course for scientists in LMICs.
Covers drug, diagnostic & vaccine R&D, funding, and connects participants to a digital platform for mentorship & resources.
🔗 us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
#CapacityStrengthening
Covers drug, diagnostic & vaccine R&D, funding, and connects participants to a digital platform for mentorship & resources.
🔗 us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
#CapacityStrengthening
November 4, 2025 at 8:35 AM
#BIOVentures 15-session GIA Biomedical Research course for scientists in LMICs.
Covers drug, diagnostic & vaccine R&D, funding, and connects participants to a digital platform for mentorship & resources.
🔗 us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
#CapacityStrengthening
Covers drug, diagnostic & vaccine R&D, funding, and connects participants to a digital platform for mentorship & resources.
🔗 us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
#CapacityStrengthening
How do we know how many newborns get serious infections and where?
Our #SNIPAfrica project is strengthening surveillance of neonatal infections. Tough work, but essential to help governments act and protect babies.
Our #SNIPAfrica project is strengthening surveillance of neonatal infections. Tough work, but essential to help governments act and protect babies.
October 24, 2025 at 9:21 AM
How do we know how many newborns get serious infections and where?
Our #SNIPAfrica project is strengthening surveillance of neonatal infections. Tough work, but essential to help governments act and protect babies.
Our #SNIPAfrica project is strengthening surveillance of neonatal infections. Tough work, but essential to help governments act and protect babies.
This week, we celebrate 15 years of the AU-EU High-Level Policy Dialogue on Science, Technology & Innovation in Brussels!
Join us at:
🟢 21 Oct., AI in Science Session
🔵 23 Oct., Innovation Fair
🟡 24 Oct., R&I Senior Officials Meeting
Join us at:
🟢 21 Oct., AI in Science Session
🔵 23 Oct., Innovation Fair
🟡 24 Oct., R&I Senior Officials Meeting
October 20, 2025 at 1:21 PM
This week, we celebrate 15 years of the AU-EU High-Level Policy Dialogue on Science, Technology & Innovation in Brussels!
Join us at:
🟢 21 Oct., AI in Science Session
🔵 23 Oct., Innovation Fair
🟡 24 Oct., R&I Senior Officials Meeting
Join us at:
🟢 21 Oct., AI in Science Session
🔵 23 Oct., Innovation Fair
🟡 24 Oct., R&I Senior Officials Meeting
How do you protect someone already exposed to Ebola?
The EBO-PEP project (funded by the Global Health EDCTP3) is testing monoclonal antibodies that could prevent infection after exposure while building local research capacity in Guinea & the DRC.
#WhatIsGlobalHealthEDCTP3
The EBO-PEP project (funded by the Global Health EDCTP3) is testing monoclonal antibodies that could prevent infection after exposure while building local research capacity in Guinea & the DRC.
#WhatIsGlobalHealthEDCTP3
October 20, 2025 at 7:41 AM
How do you protect someone already exposed to Ebola?
The EBO-PEP project (funded by the Global Health EDCTP3) is testing monoclonal antibodies that could prevent infection after exposure while building local research capacity in Guinea & the DRC.
#WhatIsGlobalHealthEDCTP3
The EBO-PEP project (funded by the Global Health EDCTP3) is testing monoclonal antibodies that could prevent infection after exposure while building local research capacity in Guinea & the DRC.
#WhatIsGlobalHealthEDCTP3
⁉️ Got an idea that could transform health research?
Join us at the @ihieurope.bsky.social brokerage event in Brussels & online, 4-5 November!
Pitch your project, showcase your expertise, and build a winning consortium.
Join us at the @ihieurope.bsky.social brokerage event in Brussels & online, 4-5 November!
Pitch your project, showcase your expertise, and build a winning consortium.
October 16, 2025 at 7:05 AM
⁉️ Got an idea that could transform health research?
Join us at the @ihieurope.bsky.social brokerage event in Brussels & online, 4-5 November!
Pitch your project, showcase your expertise, and build a winning consortium.
Join us at the @ihieurope.bsky.social brokerage event in Brussels & online, 4-5 November!
Pitch your project, showcase your expertise, and build a winning consortium.
Sharing from @pentafoundation.bsky.social: the Brighter Future Award honours champions of maternal & child health.
🏆 €5,000 prize
🎓 Storytelling bootcamp
✈️ Trip to Italy
📅 Apply by 31 Oct 2025
🔗 penta-id.org/bfa
🏆 €5,000 prize
🎓 Storytelling bootcamp
✈️ Trip to Italy
📅 Apply by 31 Oct 2025
🔗 penta-id.org/bfa
October 14, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Sharing from @pentafoundation.bsky.social: the Brighter Future Award honours champions of maternal & child health.
🏆 €5,000 prize
🎓 Storytelling bootcamp
✈️ Trip to Italy
📅 Apply by 31 Oct 2025
🔗 penta-id.org/bfa
🏆 €5,000 prize
🎓 Storytelling bootcamp
✈️ Trip to Italy
📅 Apply by 31 Oct 2025
🔗 penta-id.org/bfa
🆕 Apply: SAHRI Fellowship (Global Health EDCTP3-funded)
Fully funded 3-year programme for 12 mid-career African researchers.
⏰ Deadline: 1 Feb 2026
Apply now: t.co/ErYavfi4bw
Fully funded 3-year programme for 12 mid-career African researchers.
⏰ Deadline: 1 Feb 2026
Apply now: t.co/ErYavfi4bw
October 7, 2025 at 3:04 PM
🆕 Apply: SAHRI Fellowship (Global Health EDCTP3-funded)
Fully funded 3-year programme for 12 mid-career African researchers.
⏰ Deadline: 1 Feb 2026
Apply now: t.co/ErYavfi4bw
Fully funded 3-year programme for 12 mid-career African researchers.
⏰ Deadline: 1 Feb 2026
Apply now: t.co/ErYavfi4bw
💡 #WhatIsGlobalHealthEDCTP3?
Take ODIN: using wastewater genomic surveillance to fight infectious diseases & antimicrobial resistance in sub-Saharan Africa while training experts & building local capacity. 🌍
Take ODIN: using wastewater genomic surveillance to fight infectious diseases & antimicrobial resistance in sub-Saharan Africa while training experts & building local capacity. 🌍
October 6, 2025 at 7:12 AM
💡 #WhatIsGlobalHealthEDCTP3?
Take ODIN: using wastewater genomic surveillance to fight infectious diseases & antimicrobial resistance in sub-Saharan Africa while training experts & building local capacity. 🌍
Take ODIN: using wastewater genomic surveillance to fight infectious diseases & antimicrobial resistance in sub-Saharan Africa while training experts & building local capacity. 🌍
At #ScienceSummit #UNGA80, we chaired 'Partnering through Science: Africa–Europe Cooperation for Health #Security in a Changing #Climate.'
We also met key figures from Novo Nordisk and Novartis and are excited to turn these insights into action!
We also met key figures from Novo Nordisk and Novartis and are excited to turn these insights into action!
October 3, 2025 at 7:19 AM
At #ScienceSummit #UNGA80, we chaired 'Partnering through Science: Africa–Europe Cooperation for Health #Security in a Changing #Climate.'
We also met key figures from Novo Nordisk and Novartis and are excited to turn these insights into action!
We also met key figures from Novo Nordisk and Novartis and are excited to turn these insights into action!
✋ How do you stop a fast-moving #mpox outbreak?
Thanks to our emergency #funding mechanism, the MBOTE-SK project launched in record time, building on lessons from the earlier MBOTE-Maniema project
More: www.global-health-edctp3.europa.eu/news-and-eve...
@itmantwerp.bsky.social
Thanks to our emergency #funding mechanism, the MBOTE-SK project launched in record time, building on lessons from the earlier MBOTE-Maniema project
More: www.global-health-edctp3.europa.eu/news-and-eve...
@itmantwerp.bsky.social
September 30, 2025 at 1:36 PM
✋ How do you stop a fast-moving #mpox outbreak?
Thanks to our emergency #funding mechanism, the MBOTE-SK project launched in record time, building on lessons from the earlier MBOTE-Maniema project
More: www.global-health-edctp3.europa.eu/news-and-eve...
@itmantwerp.bsky.social
Thanks to our emergency #funding mechanism, the MBOTE-SK project launched in record time, building on lessons from the earlier MBOTE-Maniema project
More: www.global-health-edctp3.europa.eu/news-and-eve...
@itmantwerp.bsky.social
We are in Hamburg for the 14th #ECTMIH!
🎤 Today - keynote lecture on digital innovations, behavioural research and implementation.
🔬 On Wednesday - 'Diagnostic innovation for infectious threats', with EDCTP-funded projects results
👩🏾🔬 We are sponsoring six researchers.
🎤 Today - keynote lecture on digital innovations, behavioural research and implementation.
🔬 On Wednesday - 'Diagnostic innovation for infectious threats', with EDCTP-funded projects results
👩🏾🔬 We are sponsoring six researchers.
September 29, 2025 at 12:37 PM
We are in Hamburg for the 14th #ECTMIH!
🎤 Today - keynote lecture on digital innovations, behavioural research and implementation.
🔬 On Wednesday - 'Diagnostic innovation for infectious threats', with EDCTP-funded projects results
👩🏾🔬 We are sponsoring six researchers.
🎤 Today - keynote lecture on digital innovations, behavioural research and implementation.
🔬 On Wednesday - 'Diagnostic innovation for infectious threats', with EDCTP-funded projects results
👩🏾🔬 We are sponsoring six researchers.